(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The cumulative number of cases in Canada exceeds 500,000
China News Service, Toronto, December 19 (Reporter Yu Ruidong) Although the new crown vaccine is being vaccinated across the country, the cumulative number of new crown virus infections in Canada exceeded 500,000 on December 19.
The growth rate of numbers has not yet declined.
Since the first confirmed case was reported on January 25 this year, the cumulative number of cases in Canada reached 100,000 on June 18; it took four months to exceed 200,000 cases, and it took less than one month to reach 300,000 cases. It took another 18 days to exceed 400,000 cases.
The recent increase of 100,000 cases took only 15 days.
The provinces with the largest number of new cases are still Ontario and Quebec.
Ontario has added more than 2000 cases in a single day for 5 consecutive days.
The province has decided to extend the "closure" measures in Toronto and the adjacent Peel area until January 4, 2021, and has successively extended the "closure" order to include the York area where the Chinese settlements such as Markham are located. And Hamilton on the west coast of Lake Ontario.
In Quebec, the number of new cases in a single day reached a record 2038.
The province's cumulative number of cases accounts for nearly 35% of the country's total, ranking first in all regions.
Data from the Public Health Agency of Canada showed that from December 11 to 17, there were 6,653 new cases nationwide every day, and all age groups showed high infection rates, and the number of hospitalizations and deaths continued to increase.
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Tan Yongshi has called for Ontario and other severely affected areas to adopt stricter epidemic prevention measures as soon as possible.
Canada received the first batch of new coronavirus vaccines jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, which was ordered by the country on December 13, and vaccinated in Quebec and Ontario the next day.
With the start of vaccination in New Brunswick on the 19th, the country's vaccination has covered all 10 provinces.
However, as the Yukon, Northwest and Nunavut regions do not have the minus 70 degrees Celsius storage facilities required for this vaccine, there is still a wait for vaccination.
After the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency use authorization of the new crown vaccine of Moderna in the country on the 18th, the Canadian Vaccine Ministry of Health issued a statement saying that Canada expects to complete the approval of the vaccine in the next few weeks. However, a clear timetable cannot be provided for the time being.
Canadian officials have so far pre-purchased about 414 million doses of the new crown vaccine from many pharmaceutical companies around the world, and it is expected that 6 million doses of vaccine will be received by the end of March 2021.
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